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Vast Majority of Tennessee House Republicans – 58 Out of 74 – Are Co-Sponsors of Anti-Sanctuary City Bill

March 27, 2018




Fifty-eight Tennessee House Republicans are named co-sponsors on the anti-sanctuary city bill HB2315.


Adding the bill’s chief sponsor, State Rep. Jay Reedy (R-Erin), means that 80 percent of the House Republicans support strengthening and closing the loopholes in Tennessee’s existing anti-sanctuary city statute. (Seventy-four of the 99 members of the Tennessee House of Representatives this session are Republicans, while 25 are Democrats.)


Tennessee’s anti-sanctuary city law passed in 2009, only addresses written policies that prohibit local governments, officials and employees from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. This narrower definition of “sanctuary city” would likely not have applied to at least one of the sanctuary city ordinances proposed by the Metro Nashville Council last June.


The two ordinances proposed by the Metro Nashville Council would have made Nashville the most liberal sanctuary city in the country. One of the bills included a “don’t ask so you don’t have to know or tell” practice prohibiting Davidson County and Nashville employees, including law enforcement, from providing pertinent information to ICE regarding criminal aliens.
Reedy’s bill expands the definition of sanctuary city to include practices that obstruct cooperation with federal immigration authorities and help shield illegal aliens who have also committed crimes. North Carolina and Georgia have included the expanded definition in their anti-sanctuary city laws.


The Metro ordinances, drafted with the assistance of the TN Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition, were withdrawn due to overwhelming grassroots opposition and pressure from state legislators.


State Sen. Mark Green’s (R-Clarksville) Senate companion bill, HB2332, passed the Senate State and Local Government Committee last week on a 7 – 1 vote and is ready to be scheduled for a Senate floor vote.


Reedy’s bill is scheduled to be heard in the House State Government Subcommittee on Wednesday. With 59 House members already co-sponsoring the bill, if it makes it to the House floor, it already has enough votes to pass.


In a February ad released by a PAC called Tennesseans for Good State Government, GOP gubernatorial candidate Speaker Beth Harwell takes credit for “outlaw[ing] sanctuary cities,” most likely a reference to the narrow 2009 law which the Metro Nashville Council’s ordinances would have bypassed and which Rep. Reedy’s bill will fix.


Harwell is not yet listed as a co-sponsor of Reedy’s bill.


Here is the list of 58 Republican co-sponsors of the bill, listed in alphabetical order:

Boyd
Brooks H
Brooks K
Byrd
Calfee
Carr
Carter
Casada
Coley
Crawford
Doss
Eldridge
Faison
Gant
Goins
Gravitt
Halford
Hawk
Hicks
Hill M
Hill T
Holsclaw
Holt
Howell
Hulsey
Johnson
Kane
Keisling
Kumar
Lamberth,
Littleton
Lollar
Marsh
Matheny
Matlock
McCormick
McDaniel
Moody
Moon
Powers
Ragan
Rogers
Sargent
Sexton C
Sexton J
Sherrell
Smith
Sparks
Terry
Tillis
Travis
VanHuss
Vaughan
Weaver
White D
Whitson
Williams
Zachary



http://tennesseestar.com/2018/03/27/...ary-city-bill/

Bill Information Here:


http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Bill...lNumber=HB2315


Senate Bill is SB2332 by Republican Senator Mark Green


Please contact Speaker Beth Harwell to co-sponsor this sanctuary city legislation.


Nashville Address

425 5th Avenue North Suite 600 Cordell Hull Bldg.

Nashville, TN 37243

Phone: (615) 741- 0709

Fax: (615) 253-0256

District Address

413 West Tyne Drive

Nashville, TN 37205

speaker.beth.harwell@capitol.tn.gov

http://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/members/h56.html

Speaker Beth Harwell's office is saying that it is still in subcommittee. They are not aware of her position.

Calls and emails to her and to the other republicans in the House and in the Senate on the companion bill are needed for support and sponsor.

La Raza affiliate, TIRRC (Tennessee
Immigrant and Refugee Rights), is working hard today to defeat this bill and others addressing illegal immigration. They stay in the legislature to work for immigrants, including those here illegally. They advocate for increases in numbers for refugee resettlement.


Search combinations/connections of the following:


TIRRC - George Soros - Linda Sarsour - Jihad - Muslim, Hamas, Terrorist - Women's March - Republican TN Gubernatorial Candidate Randy Boyd - La Raza - George Soros - David Lubell - Travel Ban - Refugees

The TIRRC website is informative to their agenda and of their celebration of defeating legislation in Tennessee. They march in Washington, D.C.., hold rallies and act out visual dramas in the legislature, chant at offices. They are the go to organization to garner liberal media attention on any matter dealing with immigration.

TN Speaker Beth Harwell's office says that she will vote for the bill. She should now publicly add her name in support like the 58 other members have done. All republicans should be in support.